I currently don't have much access except email so can anyone tell me whether we have change notes for the new version or where Steve can find them?
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/changes.html ?
The change list is really too much low-level and hardly readable by someone that doesn't follow the dev list every day.
We could classify changes with a new attibute importance="minor|medium|major" so that we can build usable release notes automatically. Of course, the changes going in the release notes will have to be in "clear" text in order to be understood by the majority of people with average Cocoon knowledge.
Something that's needed also is categorizing the changes to easily identify the area of Cocoon where a change occured. A simple way to achieve that would be for each block to have it's own status.xml file (this will be needed anyway when blocks will have their own CVS repo).
With these two simple categorization criteria, building some useful release notes will become really easy.
What do you think ?
Sylvain
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